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BLUE MOON FARM***Sustainably Grown***
Madison County
Thanks, everybody, for making our opening weekend such a success! We had a blast seeing you all after so long, and catching up on all the news from your winter! Your enthusiasm for the market was inspiring and gratifying!
It sounds like a lot of you are already planting your herb gardens, and while it's still a little risky for basil to go in, many of our other HERB SET offerings will tolerate the cooler temperatures just fine. We have a nice selection of varieties including thyme, sage, oregano, 3 mints (spearmint, orange , and chocolate) stevia, tarragon, rosemary, lavender and more. Come on down and browse and sniff!
We are hoping for a good batch of ASPARAGUS this week from Colcord Farm in Bourbon County, which is wonderful with some of our GARLIC SCAPE PESTO drizzled on top! We'll have some more of the lovely MIXED LETTUCES from Carlisle. Chop some of our own BABY GREEN GARLIC into your salads, maybe some fresh OYSTER MUSHROOMS from Bracken Co., and top with the local favorite, CHAMPAGNE DRESSING from the Stanley Demos' recipe developed for the Coach House Restaurant many years ago.
Did you know we're having a STEAK SALE? Colcord Farm's GRASS FINISHED BEEF is loaded with Omega 3 fatty acids and even more good taste! We'll have SIRLOIN, RIBEYE, NY STRIP and FILETS on sale for 30% off. Time to stock your freezer! We have local KY LAMB too! GROUND (makes yummy meatballs!) and STEW MEAT, which is great for shish kabob
So many of you were thrilled to find our LEEKS last week, and we'll have more this week! Saute them up with some BABY GREEN GARLIC and SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS to top your steak or BURGER!
Stone Cross Farm provides us with all kinds of wonderful PORK products, from CHOPS, to BACON, ROASTS, SAUSAGES of all kinds, and even nitrite-free HOT DOGS!
The "Cup O Joe" CHEESE from Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese was a hit, and a surprise to many! A cheese soaked in coffee? It doesn't really taste like coffee, but just has a little something extra, and is really good!! We'll have more of it and many other varieties this week.
Homemade SOAPS from Stone Cross Farm, Bourbon Barrel Foods terrific SOY, WORCESTERSHIRE, and KENTUCKYAKI SAUCES, and Bourbon Smoked CRACKED PEPPER, and PAPRIKA to season your meals.
BLACKBERRY MUFFINS, huge CINNAMON ROLLS, CROISSANTS, and PAIN AU CHOCOLAT from Sunrise Bakery for your Sunday brunch, and GARLIC BAGELS to smear with goat cheese or cream cheese! All kinds of ARTISAN BREADS, including FOCACCIA topped with our GARLIC, 8-GRAIN BREAD with our HERBS, SOURDOUGH, and more.
Remember, the market goes on rain or shine, so bring a friend and come on down! We'll see you there!
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ELMWOOD STOCK FARM
Georgetown, KY
After a relatively mild winter, we are glad to be back outdoors to offer
several fresh spring veggies we normally don't see until late May!
The super popular Red Stemmed Spinach is ready, along with regular green
Spinach, Swiss Chard, Kale Greens, Green Garlic and baby Lettuce Heads -
all Certified Organic. In addition, we will have your pantry staples of
Sweet Potatoes and Red or Yellow Onions.
Several new items are available at our booth including a selection of
Organic Heirloom Dried Beans and Organic Heirloom Cornmeal (easy recipe
included.)
EGGS We offer each market our certified organic eggs from free-ranging
hens that live outdoors on grass pasture. Both whole dozen and half-dozens
available. Our hens are always outside, enjoying the green growing grass &
clover and rewarding us with beautiful big brown eggs packed full of
flavor, orangey color, and healthful omega-3-fatty acids.
MEAT and POULTRY We have restocked our inventory of grass-fed Angus
organic BEEF, for a full selection of certified organic steaks, roasts, or
ground beef patties for the grill! We will also have our grass-fed LAMB
including chops, shoulder or leg of lamb, and shanks. In addition, we
have a nice selection of certified organic CHICKEN & TURKEY, including
boneless breasts, thighs, legs, wings or ground chicken. Next day for
fresh, never frozen, whole chickens is May 12th.
Feel free to order ahead for quantity amounts or a particular cut for that
special meal, and we'll have it ready for pickup at any of the farmers
markets. View our website for special Beef & Chicken Bundles.
These days, more than ever, it's important to know the source of your
family's food and you can look to our local organic farm to meet your
body's nutritional needs resulting in good health. Visit our website to
learn more, review our price lists, pre-order your special items, or to
contact Elmwood for more information.
Information on our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program is now
available for the 2012 growing season. Like us on Facebook for more.
http://www.elmwoodstockfarm.com/
http://www.facebook.com/ElmwoodStockFarm Bleugrass Chèvre Fayette/Clark County
Finally, opening day has arrived! We'll see you at the market on Saturday with a few new offerings up our sleeve. The goats have had a fantastic winter and all the kids have been huge and healthy. After all the browse died out, the grass stayed green and they've had "salad bar" all winter. Come and visit us in our usual spot under the Pavilion.
We've been involved this winter with getting more Slow Food activities started in the Lexington area. So mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 24, 7-9 p.m. for a LOCAL cheese and craft beer tasting at Good Foods on Southland Drive, sponsored by Slow Food Bluegrass. Good Foods' cheese afficionado Pat Wiley will be hosting, and the cost is $12, $10 for Slow Food members and co-op owners. Sign up at the customer service desk ahead of time or on that night. Come and experience what exceptional cheeses our Kentucky artisan cheese makers are producing. I am so proud of us!
Cheers,
Wildflour Scones & TeaBourbon County
Serving freshly baked scones using local ingredients from the Lexington Farmer's Market and surrounding area markets. We have three scone flavors this week including: *Buttermilk & Kentucky Honey *Elmwood Stock Farms Cornmeal Cherry
*Browning's Bacon (Bourbon Co.) Maple Date
Brewing English Breakfast and Honeybush hot tea and beginning this Saturday we will be serving Caffe Marco coffee!
We're so excited for our first summer at the Lexington Farmer's Market!
Thanks for helping our first season be outstanding!
Hillside Heritage Farm Garrard County
Hillside Heritage Farm thanks all of our customers who came out on this past weekend. We had our most successful Saturday ever. Dorthy and I made over 100 trips in and out of the old orange box truck gathering pork.
This week we will be getting back reports from those who were brave enough to try our new "Polish Sausage." Of course, it's made with our heritage breeds, pasture raised, ASH Free pork - so it's bound to be good! The truck will be re-stocked with all of our delicious cuts of pork and sausages. And yes, even though we sold out Saturday, we still had bacon at home to put on the truck for this weekend! Remember, all of our pork is raised by our family on our family farm in Garrard County.
This is an exciting time around the farm. We are about ready to plant corn to hog down this fall. There's nothing more exciting than to turn a bunch of hungry hogs into a corn patch! It's a lot like the mall on "Black Friday" - a lot of squealing, pushing and racing about to get to all the goodies. The turnips, rape and clover that we planted about a month ago on their winter lots is up and would benefit from a rain. Yesterday, Hannah and I were greeted with two new litters. Fifteen new baby piglets running all around and climbing all over mom every time she lays down.
Dorthy and I are about to become grandparents for the first time - hopefully this week. Maria's daughter was due last Tuesday - so surely the little booger will get here this week. Clay hasn't been at the Saturday market yet because he is finishing up at Berea College. He graduates May 6 with his bachelor's degree in Agriculture. I suppose now he will come home and tell his Old Man all the things I have been doing wrong over the years. Actually, we have made many changes while he was in school, adopting things he had learned. We are very proud of him - not many graduate in 4 years anymore.
We hope to see you all this coming weekend. We'll probably even have pictures of the grand baby to share! John Contini4344 Poor Ridge Pk.
Lancaster, KY 40444
Proper Plants Russ and Lyn Madison We have lots to do in the greenhouses, so our trip to Farmer's Market on Saturday will be dependent on the weather. We have herb plants, vegetable plants, annuals in several sizes and 5 sizes of hanging baskets. We also have wonderful material to make up your own pots. Remember, during this "iffy" weather, portable containers, (pots, hanging baskets, etc.) are a great way to get early color! We have a huge selection of plants at the greenhouses on Military Pike in Lexington. Check out our website for directions, pricing, etc. Come by and shop the greenhouses out of the weather. "Like" us on Facebook for weekly specials to be used at Proper Plants. Happy Spring and hope to see you either at Farmer's Market or at Proper Plants.
"Local Raw Honey" by NICK and BEV NICKELS
Fayette County
The opening day of the outdoors Lexington Farmers Market will be the following Saturday, April 21st downtown at Cheapside Park (opens at 7am) and Sunday, April 22nd on Southland Drive (10am-2pm). We will be at both markets on opening day. See you there!
You may purchase honey, pollen, and/or beeswax candles from us anytime from our home at 1909 Nicholasville Road in Lexington. Call us first at 859 276-0258, and we will put what you want on our back porch for you to pick up. You may also call to make an appointment to look at Bev's candle selection.
Out home is located one block north (toward downtown) of the intersection of Southland Drive and Nicholasville Road. Turn on Goodrich Avenue and take the first driveway on your right, and you will be in our back yard. There will be a silver travel trailer (Airstream) under an awning directly in front of you. Your honey will be on the back porch. If we are not home, just leave the money on the counter. There is change in a small jar on the counter if you need some.
Web Site www.KentuckyHoney.com
Thank you, Nick & Bev Nickels PAW PRINTS BAKERY
Paw Prints Bakery will be at the kick-off of the 2012 Market Season this weekend! We will have Take-out Boxes, 1/2 lb and limited quantities of our 1 lb bags of our best flavors including Peanut Butter, Beef & Cheese, Chicken, Pumpkin and Apple Bits Bones. Remember our treats are handmade, all-natural, no preservative and made with KY Proud products! We will also have Puppy Pizzas and other fancy iced treats as well. We'll definately have UK Bones to celebrate #8 and cute little flowers for Spring! Come down, bring the dog and come see me for your dogs favorite treats!
Cheers,
Janice
Boone Creek Creamery Handmade Artisan Cheese Fayette County Wow, are we excited about the opening of the Market and we're looking forward to seeing all of our old and new customers. We'll be downtown on Saturday and on Southland Drive on Sunday. This week we will be introducing some new cheeses like our American Oak, a cheddar infused with oak barrel aged white wine and our Blackberry Serenade, an alpine Gruyere infused with blackberry wine. Delicious. You'll love our new Finnish Bread Cheese. When served warm, this Scandinavian delicacy is absolutely amazing. And check out three of our cheeses that were recently in the World Cheese Championships. -Kentucky Derby - A cheddar infused with Woodford Reserve to give this cheese a nice oaky finish. -Sassy Redhead - An American style cheddar with whole peppercorns and red pepper flakes, then dusted with red paprika on the top to give it a distinctive "red head". Spicy, but not flaming hot, it leaves a nice glow in your mouth. -Tuscan Sun - A taste of Italy with organic sun dried tomatoes and basil. We also offer cheese making classes, supplies, and equipment. For details, call or visit our website. See you at the Market. Boone Creek Creamery 859-402-2364 OLIVA BELLA Fayette County Come visit Oliva Bella at the Lexington Farmers' Market this Saturday! We will have our extra virgin olive oils, balsamico, bread, and locally made sauces, including our brand new Caponata, made with an authentic Sicilian recipe. We are so excited to be outside in the sunshine to meet new customers, see our current ones, and reconnect with our long lost summer loves!
ABIGAIL'S
Fayette County
Dear Customers,
Will not be at the LFM this coming Saturday. I will be at the Southern Kentucky Book Festival with my books. I will be back on Saturday, 28th. See you then.
Miss Abigail
Henkle's Herbs and Heirlooms
Jessamine County
Mark and Velvet will be attending the market this weekend so come down and catch up with us about all of the exciting things going on at our farm. We look forward to seeing you. We will have the
following:
-Baby lettuce mix
-Tomato plants
See you at the market!
QUARLES DAYLILLIES AND FARM
Shelby County
Spring garden is coming right along. The lettuce, onions, beets, carrots and peas are growing and the potatoes got planted this past weekend,. Swiss chard and spinach is coming up and the greenhouse is full of pepper and tomato transplants. New babies are being born in the fields and Momma cows are keeping watch over newborns slumbering in the warm spring sun.
It's not long until we'll be back outside at the pavillion. April 14th to be exact. It'll be a big weekend with the Sunday Southland market starting along with the the Lexington Home and Garden Show which will run from Thurday through Sunday of the same weekend. We'll be at all three places. Come see us. Until then we'll have one more weekend at Victorian Square. Hopefully we'll have a little more kale. It's trying real hard to bolt and doing a fine job. Yellow flowers are popping out from the kale and turnips and it'll soon be mowed off and plowed under.
We'll have our coolers full of beef this weekend. If you find that ham isn't high on your list for the Easter meal, consider a choice ribeye or New York strip steak. This year it's been warm enough you could actually consider a cook out for Easter and have a great family time with weiners, hamburgers and brats. We'll have all those and other cuts with us Saturday along with our tasty cakes and breads. A carrot apple cake with creamy buttercream icing is a perfect end to any meal. Many of our breads make a fine beginning for an Easter breakfast or brunch. We'll also have our salsas, relishes, chutneys, jams and jellies.
We certainly appreciate all of our loyal customers that have continued to visit us this winter at Victorian Square. You are wonderful folks and we are enjoying the opportunity to get to know you better. We encourage other market customers to visit the market next winter. You may be surprised at the variety of products that are available!
LA PETITE CREPERIE Fayette County La Petite Crêperie brings a little taste of France to the Bluegrass. The idea for opening a walk-up crêperie was hatched many years ago when I was a student in France. After discovering crêpes they became a staple of my diet because as a hot, quick meal they fit right in with the poor student budget. The best part was that they were never far away. Walk-up crêpe windows are like hot dog stands in New York; they are everywhere. My husband Mark and I took many more trips to France and ate countless more crêpes. We decided that the good people of Lexington should be able enjoy them here. After years of tweaking batters and looking for just the right griddle, and after serving hundreds of crêpes to our friends, family and my French students, we think we've hit on a good combination. La Petite Crêperie hopes to recreate the experience of ordering a French crêpe à emporter. Half of the fun is watching, smelling, and anticipating how delicious it's going to be. Our batter contains only eggs from the market, Weisenberger white and wheat flours, Kentucky produced whole milk, water, canola oil, sugar and salt. Our sweet crêpe fillings include honey and jam from Farmers' Market vendors, and the butter and sugar crêpes are made with homemade butter from the market. We also make a hearty breakfast crêpe with market eggs, cheese and vegetables. Our menu will vary as other fruits, berries and vegetables come into season. La Petite Crêperie will be open most Saturdays at Cheapside from 7:00 am until 2:00 pm. and most Sundays at Southland from 10:00 until 2:00. You can visit our website, www.petitecreperie.com to find out exactly where we will be and when. Bon appétit! Remember to visit our website at http://www.lexingtonfarmersmarket.com for more information about the market. If you would like your name removed from the Lexington Farmers' Market Weekly Newsletter mailing list, please send a reply message with "REMOVE" as the subject. You can do the same thing if you've changed your email address, just reply with your new information and your name. If you received this email from another source and would like to be added to our list, send a message to jeff@lexingtonfarmersmarket.com with "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. |
